the great pacific garbage patch
The world produces enough plastic to make 50 pyramids of plastic which is 350 million tones. 8 million tons of plastic ends up in our oceans and spreads into patches. The biggest one of all is called the great pacific garbage patch it weighs as much as 3 statues of liberty. In that patch there is 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic. There is 10 times more plastic in that patch then there stars in the Milky way. Half of the entire patch is fishing equipment and the other half is hard plastic and films. It isn't actually a patch it is spread across an area that is twice the size of Texas. And if you wanted to walk around it it would take you 121 days walking at 5 kph. At the moment there is enough plastic to fill 100 planes. Plastic is building up so that now it will probably be more than 115 planes. And the patch is getting bigger mainly because the plastic will stick around forever. Experts think that by 2050 the weight of that patch will outweigh all the fish in the ocean and there are a lot of fish in the ocean.
I think that this is bad news. do you have more information about this patch?
hello Robert I am cooper I liked learning that there is more rubbish in earth than there is stars in the milky way.
ReplyDeletewere did you get all your info from.
Hi my name is Rhys and I Really love your writing.
ReplyDeleteDo you think the patch will ever go away?
From Rhys.